The packaging alludes to the possibility that Lie With Me will challenge the depiction of how sex is visualised by regular cinema.
Focusing on these elements is a misnomer; little of the action appears to be real thus ensuring that Lie With Me has already been rendered redundant by the preceding likes of 9 Songs and Intimacy. Indeed, it’s only the forwardness of Leila’s (Lauren Lee Smith) sexual advances and the extended softcore scenes that make this any more erotically demanding than Basic Instinct – In The Cut might well be a fairer comparison.
Fortunately there’s a surrounding context to Leila and David’s (Eric Balfour) affair that imbues Lie With Me with some class; David is looking after his dying father whilst Leila is struggling with the messy separation of her parents. It might not sound like much, but it’s approached with enough quiet dignity to provide Lie With Me with more substance than the hype would suggest.
